Throughout the last years I have been working closely with corporations, suppliers and vendors on Software As A Service (SaaS red.) and cloud computing. As the IT industry often looks at the technology, I have experienced a radical changing behavior at the offices I visited. We are not only changing on the technology side – but also the way we work.
During the 1960s John Shiflett, had great momentum with his new “action office”, giving birth to the cubical office. For privacy, focus and productivity – employees were arranged in small enclosed one-man configurable cubicals. The mantra was, that employees became more productive, the less noise their experienced and the more you screened them in. Knowledge was shared by meetings and memos. The everyday work was to work, document and re-cap of the work done. Security, paper copies and memos was kept tight in cabinets in each cubical and a central archive. Continue reading
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